The crazed Rikku/Gippal Story

A/N: This is my first fanfic so please… be harsh! How else will I learn? Enjoy! 99.9 of this fanfic is in AlBhed, so no reviews saying how themachina faction peoplecan't speak english, I know.

Disclaimer : I do not own any thing except this plot, so don't sue me and make me suffer more by making me remember how pathetic I am!

Chapter 1 : Dreaming of you

A drunken party still seared on outside. Every few seconds one of the fine expensive glasses shattering could be heard faintly under the heavy music. Inside the bedroom the music was dulled but still heard hard and strong accompanied by the loud gruff voices of AlBhed yelling over the song. The thick smell of expensive dark wines floated through the air heavily, it could make even the strongest of men dizzy.

Even after only having one drink it was beginning to have it's affect on Gippal as he sat silently watching the chest of girl in his arms go up and down under the thin greenish colored sheets. The bed they lay in was extremely uncomfortable and sharp, and being this was more of a room for men to enjoy their prostitutes, the blankets were most likely covered in some sort of smut. The unlockable door was held shut with a rickety old dresser that they feared to even look in, only reminding him more and more of this places resemblance to a cheap (almost free) room in a tacky old hotel.

He ran his fingers through her loose blonde hair, gently moving the strands that had strayed into her eyes and tucking them behind her ear. As soft as he had tried to move Gippal still managed to wake her and stared into her glistening emerald eyes; he smiled instantly. She had beautiful eyes.

"Gippal?" She whispered and reached out to touch his cheek. He could feel her small tanned fingers shaking as they brushed his skin lightly before falling limp at his neck.

Instead of answering he loosened his grip on her slightly and began to trace the indefinite curves of her thin little body with his lips and tongue, stopping shortly at her stomach where the girl wouldn't stop giggling enough for him to go any further. He laughed too, but only at her innocence. The thought pained him.

He slid back up and placed his head on her chest wrapping his arms back around her pulling her tightly to him. With a faint impression why, Gippal never worried so much as he held her to his chest. What if someone came looking for them? How would it be between them after this? Did she want there to be more after this night? At the same time a genuine smile was plastered to his face. He liked how she smiled back and if she was happy it didn't even seem to matter what would happen next.

Slowly he kissed the side of her breast and sighed. "Don't fall asleep yet," he muttered, looking up into her eyes. Before doing any thing else he made it a point to say it, the one thing he knew that could tell her for certain how he cared gently he sounded out every syllable making sure to get it just right. Slowly he whispered her name, he whispered, "Rikku".

He expected an over whelming amount of joy, he expected at least a smile to touch her delicate little face, instead she looked at him unmoving. She began twisting a finger into some of his hair and yanked hard, "What, did you call me!" her voice came out deeper that normal and she really sounded angry.

A haze covered his vision from that pull and caused him to blink his eyes a few times to clear it up. Instead of staring at the beautiful Rikku beneath him he looked at a girl he didn't even recognize. Quickly he grabbed a fistful of dark hair in his fingers and examined it carefully then looked to her equally dark eyes. The girl looked at him furiously and began squirming to get out from under him, after a short while she managed and plucked her clothes from the floor throwing them hastily on and leaving his room rapidly making a point to slam to door hard to make the picture frames on the walls shake.

This wasn't the hotel room, there wasn't a party outside, and most importantly Rikku was no where to be found. This was Gippal's own room in the Machina Faction HQ, cluttered and messy with a reasonably comfortable bed. He couldn't believe he had actually dreamt that, when it had felt so real, when he had been so happy.

It was just another regular night, sleeping with a girl whose name he still couldn't remember, and coincidently finding that his wallet had gone missing, along with a large bottle of champagne. He wondered faintly how she could have managed to sneak that out with out him noticing. His dream however wasn't so regular, he hadn't had a sex dream about Rikku since he was really young, and he hadn't had a sex dream about any one that left him so feeling so disturbed.

He'd never actually felt in love with any girl, the way he was with Rikku. But he didn't love Rikku. Sure she was a tiny little thing with a nice body, she did some of the most adorable things humanly possible, she blushed when he teased her, she had a nice body, she tried desperately to make people around her happy, and she had an unbearably hot body, but he didn't love her, or any one for that matter. Women were fun to play with and if you had one for too long you would get bored with her. That being said love is obsolete, and only for people too shy or moral for a different woman every night.

Sunlight was already pouring through the windows and stung Gippal's eye. Another day of work, today would be just another boring day of work.

"So any thing special planned for today?" Gippal asked roughly to the man standing just outside his bedroom door. His assistant if that's what you'd like to call him, despite his amazing ability to never assist in any way, just like his welders couldn't weld, and nobody could do the job they were assigned to do, they were pretty good at other peoples job's though, that is if there were people some where in Spira hired to stand around all day and talk.

"That woman you hired to answer the phones won't tell me any thing, even though I know she has got phone calls, I've heard her talking," He droned on for a few more minutes about the unnecessary equal rights laws before Gippal ended up shoving him in a closet and locking the door. Then went over to talk to the lady who answered the phones.

She wasn't exactly pretty, from what Gippal could tell but she had the most annoying voice sounding extremely similar to a parrot's, and yes she was on the phone. Of coarse she wasn't talking to any body related to the Machina Faction, she was busying up the line with personal calls. So Gippal just disconnected the phone, he wasn't getting any business calls anyway, and still managing to save money on the phone bill.

Next he had to face a welder who had somehow managed to burn his fingers off under the completely fire proof suit he was wearing. He screamed so loud and then picked up the blowtorch and tried to weld more hitting his fingers once more, and just kept going at them even though he was obviously in pain. Gippal's response to this was to get a bottle of air freshener and spray it around the man to make the smell of burning flesh go away. He was in too bad of a mood to wrestle him for the blowtorch, considering this same thing happened every morning and somehow he came back every day with charred stubs of fingers to whittle down.

"What is he doing to these people, see I told you all about him but people said I was crazy!" a thick sloppy voice sauntered through the air, immediately Gippal recognized it to be Brother's.

"I said you were crazy for a totally different reason, I probably would have believed you if you told me Gippal mutilated people" quipped a squeaky little voice, he shivered when hearing it. Soft and innocent as ever Rikku giggled.

Gippal looked away from the welder to see the two of them, accompanied by Buddy and Shinra standing at the large door of the temple. Happy to find a reason to leave the idiotic workers alone, he jumped up with a jolt, and waved. "What are you guys doing here?"

Brother hmphed loudly at the sight of him and turned his head away, Shinra tilted his head and Buddy had his eyes glued to the screaming AlBhed man looking rather scared. So naturally Rikku answered, "We told the phone bird to leave you a message, didn't you get it?" she tilted her head to the side and scratched her cheek briefly.

"Phone Bird!" he shouted, "Do I have any messages?" only to be answered with a little quip asking how she could get any messages with her phone disconnected. The group began to stare at Gippal strangely only for the uncomfortable ness to be enhanced as the assistant found there way to them apparently having broke open the closet door, or figured out it locked from the inside. (Gippal does live here after all)

"This is worker abuse Mr. Gippal! Your not allowed to lock men in a closet, if any body lock that stupid woman in it!" the assistant's face looked red under his mask.

"Get back to work!" he almost yelled back making every one around him shrink back a few steps even the welder stopped screaming for a few seconds. The assistant grumbled away, the phone lady/parrot pretended to work on an invisible phone and the welder tried to weld a chunk of skin back onto his finger. Stubborn obnoxious --

"You shouldn't treat your workers so severely," muttered Brother still not looking at him.

"I concur," Shinra sheepishly followed.

Gippal gave them an evil stare making Rikku scoot back a few feet and hide behind her brother, then he took turns pointing at her, Shinra, and Brother, "You, you, and you SHUT UP! Buddy tell me why you're here." he demanded.

"I don't know." he muttered and then pushed Rikku out from behind Brother and hid there himself. She stumbled and almost hit the floor.

"Me and these big strong men, need an upgrade on the Celsius, we're getting passed by gulls," she muttered looking at her feet then gazed up only holding fear in her eyes for a second, then smiled "We'll help you out though and pay you, considering your crew is going to mutinize you tonight, it's the least we can do " she giggled brightly and Gippal smiled. He didn't want to help them out people were just out to get him and today he was less than likely to just deal with it, but the way Rikku smiled at him made him want to. At least he would be getting away from the idiotic trio for a while.

Rikku noticed his smile abruptly then pointed a shaky finger at him, "But if you even think about telling ME to shut up again, we're tying you up and throwing you in the Moonflow," she screeched in her squeaky little voice.

"A river filled with shoopuf shit, you've got my attention now Cid's girl," He sniped fearing for his hair, then reached out to pull her bandanna over her eyes, trying to prove to himself how much he did need to see them.

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